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In a production workshop at GAC Aion, an NEV subsidiary of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd, lines of industrial robots equipped with precise seven-axis robotic arms install the car tires and execute the welding of the steel-aluminum structure car body while two uniformed technicians monitor parameters on a digital screen.
Herbert Diess, former chairman of Volkswagen, is fully aware that electric vehicles, or EVs, from local marques are more popular than those from foreign manufacturers in China, the German carmaker's largest market.
Japanese carmakers are finally entering the extremely competitive electric vehicle market in China, but it may take the latecomers a lot of time before they can grab a slice of the country's competitive electric car market.